A. Program Description. The Department of History offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Please see our website (https://www.colorado.edu/history/graduate-studies) for complete program and contact information.

B. Special Programs. Center for British and Irish Studies, https://www.colorado.edu/center/british-irish-studies/; Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, https://www.medieval.eu/center-medieval-early-modern-studies/; Jewish Studies and the Mazal Holocaust Collection, http://www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies/, Center of the American West, https://www.colorado.edu/center/west/ ; and the Western History Collections at Norlin Library.

C. Financial Aid. The Department makes every effort to recruit top applicants to its PhD program. In the 2025-2026 admission cycle, 80% of admitted PhD applicants received offers of financial support. The Department employs 25-30 graduate students per semester as teaching assistants and/or GPTIs. ABD doctoral students are eligible to hold Graduate Part-Time Instructor (GPTI) positions. These positions provide teaching experience and involve complete responsibility for one or more sections of an undergraduate course. Both T.A. and GPTI positions provide a stipend and tuition remission.

D. Degree Requirements. A minimum of 45 semester hours of post-baccalaureate course work at the 5000 level or above is required for the degree, including a minimum of six hours of seminar work at the 7000 level. With the approval of a candidate's advisor, up to 9 hours of prior graduate work in history, whether completed at the University of Colorado or elsewhere, may be transferred into the PhD program. A comprehensive examination, consisting of the composition, compilation, and oral defense of a student specific portfolio of scholarly work must be successfully completed before the candidate advances to the dissertation. Please see our website (www.colorado.edu/history) for complete information on the PhD comprehensive examination.